Please Help my Friend, if you can
Update from my friend's GoFundMe, 2025-07-23: well, i’m back rattling my tin cup again. i am currently $870 behind on my car payment, but i might be able to get a deferral if i can fundraise half of that. i paid $100 today, and i will be able to pay a further $250 when a check posts to my account on or by the 29th but obviously the closer i can get to the $870 total the better. i know that it’s a hard time for everyone right now, i don’t love having to do this. but i need a car to get a job to get caught up on the car, so if you can help at all, i can’t express how grateful id be
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One of my best friends is going through a hell of a time. They lost their job in mid-May, and have been searching for work since then. Nothing is materializing, and they just got the double-whammy of a denied unemployment app, and an eviction notice.
I am doing everything I can to provide help; I have plans to take off work to drive down and provide an extra pair of hands if they need help, I have been asking around for recommendations for nonprofits and ministries in the area who can help, and I am emploring our mutual friends and acquaintances to help however they can.
They put a GoFundMe together and are taking whatever help they can. If there is room in your budget to pitch in and help a stranger, they and I would both greatly appreciate it. Additionally, if you live in the Dallas/Fort Worth metro and know some kind souls who can assist, or know of some nonprofits or other aid organizations that may be of help, please let me know. I can be reached at the email below. (I am getting the DNS set up for this. If it bounces an error back, please comment on my profile and let me know.)
If you're a person of faith, prayer for providence and support would be greatly appreciated as well. Everyone I have interacted with on here has been incredibly kind and nice. Thank you in advance to anyone who chooses to lend a helping hand.
Thank you for your time.
This will be a dumping ground for whatever self-indulgent nonsense that I can come up with. From video game, anime and online video commentaries, to personal musings about cars, relationships, work and life, if you didn't ask, you'll find it here!
More than anything, this webpage will be a space for me to get some of my thoughts out of my head. I started abandoning my main social media accounts at the beginning of the decade, closing those account earlier this year. While I have moved on from FB/Insta/Twitter, I still have thoughts and opinions to toss out there. This site will be shared to a single-digit number of friends, so they can know what's going on in my weird little brain.
How did I end up here?
While my exodus from social media has been gradual, the decision to try neocities was spontaneous. As the work day ended on a Friday in June, I remembered a YouTube channel I really like, which maintains a silly little webpage for their own sake. Likewise, I wanted a little corner of the internet to call my own.
I have been on Reddit for several years, though my only real interest there now revolves around sports and technology subreddits. It is an easy forum for keeping up with my favorite team and its league, and Reddit has been instrumental in my journey into trying, learning, daily driving, and fully adopting Linux. [I use Debian and Fedora BTW] [This is being written on a jailbroken Chromebook running Debian!]
I also want to teach myself some new skills. Just going through the work of setting up this home page is giving me a better sense of what goes into basic webpage design. I like dabbling with new things, so I am embracing the opportunity to learn this stuff.
It is also an act of rebellion against the enshittification of every online space I have occupied the last ~15 years. It has been a real bummer to see a lot of my peers leaving those spaces, and for content mills and generative AI nonsense to fill the gaps. I am certain that most of my friends and family would not bother learing enough HTML or CSS to set up a neocities page, and that's totally fair! But for myself, I want to see what self-expression I can pursue through a silly old-school website like this.
So yeah. This is partially a personal blog and essay page, and partially a work of performance art by someone who is digitally touch-starved and wanting to find some space to share and engage with others.
It is probably a bit recursive, but I may chronicle this very journey to share my experience diving into this niche little corner of the Internet. We'll see.